[Sci-tech-public] STS Colloquium -- Susan Silbey -- October 15th

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Please join us on Monday, October 15, for an STS Colloquium:

Governing Green Laboratories:
Trust and Surveillance in the Cultures of Science

Susan Silbey
Professor of Sociology and Anthropology; Program Head, MIT Anthropology

4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095

Professor Silbey received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the 
University of Chicago and post-graduate training in ethnography in 
the Sociology Department of Brandeis University.  She is most well 
known for her work on law in everyday life, although she has written 
about attorney general's offices, limited jurisdiction courts, and 
alternative forms of dispute resolution including negotiation and 
mediation. Her current research looks at the roles and conceptions of 
law in scientific laboratories, comparing the place of law in expert 
communities and popular culture.  She is also conducting a 
longitudinal study of engineering education, following a cohort of 
students through four different engineering schools.  Professor 
Silbey is the past President of the Law and Society Association, and 
a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social 
Science.  Her publications include The Common Place of Law: Stories 
from Everyday Life (with Patricia Ewick), In Litigation: Do the 
'Haves' Still Come Out Ahead? (edited with Herbert Kritzer) and soon 
to appear a two volume edited collection of essays on Law and 
Science.  She will speak Monday, October 15, on "Governing Green 
Laboratories: Trust and Surveillance in the Cultures of Science."

See you Monday at 4:00 pm!

For further information, call 617-452-2390.

MIT location: 
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